Mapped network drives

[finatic]

Hello all, I was wondering if someone could help me. I have setup a PC for a corporate user. Windows XP Pro. The user does not have local admin rights on the PC. I had to map 2 unix drives to his PC as the local administrator. When I log onto the PC as the user he cannot see any of the mapped drives. I have done this before for 3 other users and they are fine. This is the same image that I used for all users in our environment. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

You might check the NTFS permissions on the server offering the shares.

 

[finatic]

Its a unix box running samba. It seems to be working correctly because when I log onto the PC with a different user I can see the shares.

 

[bcastner]

Two thoughts:

1. Rule out basic connectivity issues by trying from a CMD session using NET use. Do it once with the netbios name form, and if it fails, try again with the IP form.

2. Sometimes this issue is due to the default of "Persistant" in the mapping. Using net use with the "/d" parameter to remove the shares can help with this. As can setting the shares as non-persistant with the "/persistant:no" setting on the command line. For a good discussion see the Mapping section on this site:

http://www25.brinkster.com/ChicagoTech/

 

[finatic]

I have disconnected the drives using the /d and reconnected them and I still have the same problem. What I dont understand is how come when I map it under the administrator account one user can see the drives and another user cannot.

 

[franklin97355]

Does the user have an account on the samba server?

 

[finatic]

I believe the users do not have any accounts on the samba server. I will find out for sure. We also set the registry to "Enable Plain Text Authentication".

 

[finatic]

I just found out that these are open shares on the samba server.

 

[bcastner]

Do the shares have guest = yes
as their settings in smb.cnf?

If they are "open" shares then:
chdown should show them as nobody or public
security = share
and on the shares, guest = yes

 

[finatic]

This seems to be a PC issue not a samba issue. When I log onto the PC as administrator all shares are there and the C drive and the floppy drive. When I log onto the PC as any user and I look at my computer I dont see anything. No C drive no floppy no cd-rom drive no shares. Sorry if I confused you.

 

[bcastner]

If all the icons are missing, except perhaps the recycle bin, this is normal. To "fix":

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6400/rh6407.htm

If you literally mean that non-Administrators see nothing in the My Computer folder for local hard disks, optical disks and network shares, and this is true of all new users you have attempted to add, the problem is likely one of Group Policy:

Local Computer Policy
User Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Explorer

Here you should see something in the right window that says "Hide these specified drives in My Computer". Double click and click "disable"

There are two other possibilities:

1. The HideDrive entry was made in the registry for the Default User, but I suspect you would know that;

2. An Administrator removed or renamed the Administrative Shares for each device, and I suspect you would know that too.

3. You can do this with TweakUI and other Tweaking programs, but the settings should apply to the Administrator as well, but I could be wrong about that.

I would reinstall XP if I had this issue.